Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01
COLUSA COUNTY.
A Representative and Rich sacra-
mento Valley Section.


mento Valley Section. l5ff
Colusa county is one of the most mi
notable of all the Sacramento Valley ~
counties, because of its immens
grain fields and its remarkable no
ductiveness of cereals generally. It lies
north of Yolo and west of Butte.
Its southern boundary is little below
the thirty-ninth degree of latitude and
parallel with it, and its northern par
allel with that and sixty-two miles distant.
The east line of the county is the Sacra-
mento river and Big Butte creek, tribu-
tary of the river, and the county extends
thence to the west fifty-five miles on its
north line and thirty-fve on its south. It
is longitudinally cut by the
GREAT LINE OF RAILWAY
From California to Oregon. A line is also
now being constructed from Willows north
wardly and westerly, toward Round Val
ley, in the northern part of Mendocino
county, and thence to reach the ocean at
Humboldt bay. A line of narrow-gauge
also connects the county seat Colusa, with
the Oregon line, and crossing it, is now
making its way westward toward the upper
part of Lake county. Colusa, the county
seat. is on the Sacramento river, and is a
large and growing town, supported almost
wholly by the agricultural wealth that
makes it its market place.
ooLUsA's AREA
Is $500 square miles. OF this ,275 is Sac
ramento valley land, with 100 square miles
of adobe included, and 40 square miles OF
| tule. $50 of lower foothills and 645 of Coast
Range. About one-third of the county on
the west is agreeably broken by hills that
gradually ascend to the Coast Range alti-
| tudes-nowhere great, however. The soil
! of the valley land is mainly reddish gray
ely loan, and that of the foothills strongly
resembles it. What is known as the ba-
sin" is the pitch of the valley toward the
river ON the east, south of Jacinto, until il
| terminates in tule land, three or four miles
west of the river From that point there is
a rapid rise to the river, and then east of il
a second depression to Butte creek. In
these river sections are the rich alluvial
loans, so valuable and so marvelously pro-
ductive. The great valley in Colusa is g
broad, level plain, open, with few trees
and width of from fifteen to twenty miles
The soil is chiefly loan or sediment from
the hills. From Willows north it is red
dish gravelly in character. All the creeks
from the foothills flow upon ridges, be-
tween which is low, fiat land that is poorly
drained by nature, but under drainage by
art these lands become valuable for all pur
poses of grain-growing. The foothill region
is given up to grazing and fruit-growiDg
the soil being red and grayelly. Colusa il
thus seen to be in the front rank of tht
wealth-producing counties. 1t more truly
than any other county
REPRESENTS THE GREAT SACRAMENTO yALLEl
Resting, as it does, in its very bosom. Tn
, population is about $4,000, in the main par
farmers and fruit and stock raisers. .Th
! soil of the great plains is of unsurpasset
J fertility, and in the western part of tn
. county where small, sheltered valley
abound, there is such wealth of produc
from titled lands that the recital woul'
, seem fabulous.
: Colusa, like all purely agricultural coun
ties, for a long time did not feel the spiri
5 of development, as have those more com
: mercial in character and of greater nee
for population and trade. But now tina
, the county is trayersed by railroads an
e brought near to the great markets, an
! that broad acreages are breaking up int
! small tracts for home-seekers,
THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE HOUR
Animates the people of Colusa, and the
are presenting claims for share of the in
coming tide of desirable immigration this
4 are of the most convincing character. Ian